Seal.



W. M. BROOKS.

SEAL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-2| 1911.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WINFRED MUDGE BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO E. J. BROOKS & 60., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SEAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

Application filed January 2, 1917. Serial No. 140,277.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVINFRED Muocn BROOKS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of East Orange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seals, as hereinafter more specifically set forth.

This invention relates to wire seals adapted to be fastened and sealed by hand and of a character that any attempt to tamper therewith will result in fracture thereof.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple seal of the character described with certain novel features hereinafter more fully described for improving its security and to render its proper manipulation in sealing simple and natural.

One sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof, in which like reference characters denote like parts throughout.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 shows a side view of one type of the improved seal unsealed; Figs. 2 and 3 show front and back views respectively of the same seal; Fig. 4: shows a side view of the seal sealed; Fig. 5 shows the opposite side of the same seal; Fig. 6 shows a side view of a portion of a preferred type preliminary to sealing and Fig. 7 shows a side View of a portion of another type sealed.

The seal ready for use is shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and consists of a piece of suitable wire (4 having a substantially tubular coil 6 b or b at one end disposed at an angle therewith, said coil terminating at its outer end in a catch c. A portion of the wirea is flattened as at g in a plane substantially perpendicular to that of the axis of the coil 6. This flattening precludes the bending of the part 9 in any direction other than backward and forward with regard to said tubular coil 5. A portion f of the wire a may be suitably embossed with the users name etc. and the portions 7 and g with the short adjacent and intervening portions of the wire a constitute what may be termed the loop-forming part of the seal. A stop 0 is provided as a terminus of said loop-forming part and the wire beyond denoted 61 may be termed the sealing part, being provided with transverse cut nicks 'v in the side opposite the catch end of the tubular coil 6. Said tubular coil is preferably bent at an acute angle with the loopforming part (b Fig. 6) or may be made conical with the larger end outward with the catch (Z2 Fig. 7) either of which forms naturally induces the introduction of the sealing part (Z into the outer rather than the inner end of the coil;

The tubular coil 1), b 6 makes it impossible to withdraw the sealing part after same has been inserted through and bent back over said coil without a full straightening of the part which is rendered impossible by the weakening nicks o. The flattening of the seal at g as described and the particular forming of the tubular coils as b in Fig. 6 and Z2 in Fig. 7 make it impossible-to bend the loop and insert the sealing part (Z into the coil in any other than the proper manner viz: through the outer or catch end of the coil.

In operation the seal is looped through the staples or other locking means and the sealing part d inserted through the outer or catch end of the tubular coil up to the stop 0. Its end then protruding from the inner end of the coil is bent back and caught under the catch 6 which protects it from accidental displacement.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim:

1. A wire seal; comprising a loop-forming part, a tubular coil angularly disposed at one end thereof having a catch at its outer end, a stop near the other end of said loopforming part, a sealing part beyond said stop adapted to be passed through said tubular part, bent back and caught under said catch and means for preventing the unbending of said sealing part.

' 2. A wire seal comprising a loop-forming part, a substantially tubular coil angularly disposed at one end thereof, a catch at the outer. end of said coil, a flattened portion of the wire in said loop-forming part flattened in a plane substantially, perpendicular to that of the axis of said tubular coil, astopnear the other end of said loopforming part and a part beyond said catch provided with transverse cut nicks in the face opposite the outer or catch end ofsaid coil.

3. A wire seal comprising a loop-forming part, a substantially tubular coil angularly disposed at one end thereof, a catch at the outer end of said coil, a stop near the other end of said loop-forming part, a continuation of the Wire beyond said stop, transverse nicks cut therein on the side opposite the catch end of the tubular coil, means for causing said loop-forming part to bend only in a plane of the axls of said tubular (301i and means for accommodating the outer or catch end of said tubular coil to the thereof bent back to form an acute angle therewith, a catch at the outer end of said coil, a flattened portion of the loop-forming part flattened in a plane perpendicular to that of the axis of said coil, a stop near the other end of said loop-forming part, a continuation of the Wire beyond said stop, transverse nicks cut into the face of said continuation opposite the catch or outer end of said coil, all substantially as hereinbefore specified.

WINFRED MUDGE BROiTEKS.

Vitnesses:

R. XV. SNOW, C. C. BUDDE.

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